Harness for looms



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. MATOON, OF GHICOPEE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

HARNESS FOR LOOIVIS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,208, dated September 15, 1857.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MA'rooN, of Chicopee Falls, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Mode of Making Loom-Harness; and I do hereby declare that the same is'fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1, is an illustration of a harness as constructed in the ordinary manner. Fig. 2, exhibits a sketch of my improved harness, or one made in my improved manner.

In the ordinary way of knitting a harness, the thread f, f, passed through each eye, a, (see Fig. 1) is made to embrace opposite sides of the lower shaft, B, the lease, (Z, being below the eye a, while the knot, Z), is at the upper part of the eye. The threads 6, e, of the knots pass upward together against one side of the upper shaft, A. In my improved plan of constructing a harness, (see Fig. 2,) I arrange the knot, b, at the lower part of the eye, a, and I dispose the lease, (Z, directly below the knot, the loop 0, being at the upper part of the eye, and having both its threads f, f, passing against one side of its shaft A. The threads, 0, e, of each lease, (Z, (Fig. 2) embrace opposite sides of their shaft B.

In manufacturing my improved harness, I knit it with a lease at the top as well as one at the bottom, or in other words, with one above as well as below each eyein which case, I subsequently change the upper shaft so as to pass between the several loop threads, 7, f, in such manner as to make both threads of each loop pass against one side of the shaft instead of embracing the shaft so as to form a lease. I11 this way, one loop thread will lie over the other so as to make wider spaces between the threads of two adjacent loops than will be found in the ordinary harness.

Some of the advantages of my improvement are as follows. The lease being immediately below the knot, there is no disturbance of the varnish in joining the loop and eye, when the hand of a person is put through the lease in order to draw the warps. A harness constructed on my improved plan will last very much longer (generally speaking more than double the time) than one made on that exhibited in Fig. 1. Besides this it occasions less friction on the warp threads.

I have been informed that several years ago, a harness constructed not only with its lease and knot arranged below its eye, but with the threads of each loop made to pass against one side of their shaft instead of being caused to embrace opposite sides of it, was constructed by others and put in use. Although my improved harness embraces this principle of construction, it contains an improvement by which it is rendered very useful and of great practical advantage.

In my improved harness, the eye has no twist and stands in a very excellent position to prevent friction against the warps running between the loops. In the ordinary mode of knitting a harness and which I do not claim, the knot side or upper part of it is knit without a lease, the lower side being knit with a lease. The harness to which I have above alluded as having been made by others was knit with a lease below the knot, and without a lease above the eye or loop. In making my improved harness, it is to be knit with a lease above as well as one below the eye, with its knotat the bottom of the eye and the loop above the eye, and afterward, the lease above the eye is to be taken out by running a rod or bar between the loops in such manner that every other loop shall be on one side of the bar while the remainder of the loops shall be on the other side of it, this mode of knitting and arranging the parts rendering my im proved harness far superior to either of the others above referred to.

The advantages of my harness over that above referred to are, that my harness can be made cheaper and to operate better than the former and be without any twist in its eye because the two threads of its loop lie on one another at the top of its upper bar.

I do not claim making a harness with a knot at the top as well as one at the bottom of each eye thereof, as this has been done before. When the eye is knotted at top and bottom, there is double the friction and wear on the warps, that takes place when the eye is knotted only either at top or bottom.

In the drawings, 9 and 71, exhibit the usual top and bottom bands, to which the threads are fastened.

What I claim as my invention is- The above described improved mode of making a harness, so that its lease and knot shall be below its eye and the threads of each loop be caused to pass against one manner as to make both threads of each 10 side of their shaft or bar instead of being loop pass against one side of the shaft. caused to embrace opposite sides of it In testimony whereof, I have hereunto namely, first knitting the harness With a set my signature this 27th day of June, 1857. lease at top and one at bottom or one above as Well as one below each eye and] MATOON' subsequently changing the upper shaft so Vitnesses: as to pass it between the several loop threads I R. H. EDDY,

of the upper side of the harness in such I F. R. HALE, Jr. 

